The Piano, 1875

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate (cut to plate mark): 23.5 × 15.5 cm (9 1/4 × 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 144, state vii/vii

Accession Number

1943.3.8475

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler (printer) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

[Whistler's butterfly signature] upper left composition, in plate. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower left tab, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "mk 30665" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. "B.M." (Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge collector's stamp) verso, brown stamped ink (Lugt 394). (Henry Harper Benedict collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink (Lugt 1298).

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, probably before 1902, (Lugt 394). Knoedler & Co., New York. Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], (Lugt 1298). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Benedict, Henry Harper
MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 141, vi/vi.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 144, state vii/vii.